Beaumont and Fletcher on Women

“Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure You credit anything the light gives life to Before a man.”

“Woman, they say, was only made of man: Methinks ’tis strange they should be so unlike! It may be all the best was cut away, To make the woman, and the naught was left Behind with him.”

“There is a vile, dishonest trick in man, More than in women: all the men I meet Appear thus to me,—are harsh and rude, And have a subtilty in everything, Which love could never know; but we, fond women, Harbour the easiest and smoothest thoughts, And think all shall go so.”